Heights of Reflection

SEAN IRETON is Associate Professor of German in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Missouri. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor and Chairperson of German Studies at Emory College, GA. ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona; he received the title of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding service to German studies. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor and Chairperson of German Studies at Emory College, GA. OLAF BERWALD is Department Chair of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Professor of German at Middle Tennessee State University. PETER HÖYNG is Professor of German at Emory University. SEAN FRANZEL is Professor of German at the University of Missouri. SEAN IRETON is Associate Professor of German in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Missouri.

• Introduction: The Meaning of Mountains: Geology, History, Culture - Caroline Schaumann and Sean IretonPrelude: Classical Mountain Landscapes and the Language of Ascent - Dan HooleyTerra Incognita? Mountains in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature - Albrecht ClassenFrom Meadows to Mountaintops: Albrecht von Haller's"Die Alpen" - Caroline SchaumannGeo-Poetics: The Alpine Sublime in Art and Literature, 1779-1860 - Anthony OzturkTime and Narrative in the Mountain Sublime around 1800 - Sean FranzelFaust's Mountains: An Ecocritical Reading of Goethe's Tragedy and Science - Heather I. SullivanSpectacular Scenery and Slippery Descents: Narrating the Mountains of Tropical Polynesia - Sabine WilkeFascinating Voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the Myth of Chimborazo - Oliver LubrichFrom Eros to Thanatos: Hiking and Spelunking in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg - Peter ArndsGeology, Mountaineering, and Self-Formation in Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer - Sean Ireton"An Apparition from Another World" -- The Mountains of the Moon and Kilimanjaro from the Perspective of Nineteenth-Century Germany - Christof HammanLeaving the Summit Behind: Tracking Biographical and Philosophical Pathways in Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie - Peter HöyngElevation and Insight: Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg - Johannes Turk"The Essence of the Alpine World Is Struggle": Strategies of Gesundung in Arnold Fanck's Early Mountain Films - Wilfried Wilms PhD"Mountain of Destiny": The Filmic Legacy of Nanga Parbat - Harald HoebuschSpatial Orientation and Embodied Transcendence in Werner Herzog's Mountain Climbing Films - Roger F. CookW. G. Sebald's Magic Mountains - Scott DenhamConflicting Ascents: Inscriptions, Cartographies, andDisappearance in Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg - Olaf BerwaldWorks CitedNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[E]xcellent coverage of the part played by mountaineering and its representations in the recuperation of German self-esteem post-1918, and into the evolution of the Bergfilm after 1945. . . . What makes mountain space so interesting from the point of view of the imagination -- one of many insights available here -- are the ways in which time can be figured in it . . . . [A] collection whose historical depth and breadth of reference make it a resource for scholars of the spatial imagination.